Gulf of Finland
- proper noun
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Golfo de Finlandia
- The Gulf of Finland lies to the south of Finland and north of Estonia.
Examples
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In Sweden and Finland, pulp-and-paper mills are located primarily in the catchments of the Bothnian Sea, Bothnian Bay, and the Gulf of Finland.
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For example, in the late 1980s, the city of St. Petersburg was responsible for about 90 percent of all copper and chromium discharged into the Gulf of Finland.
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For example, the sea south of land is shown as being warmer than normal, and the Gulf of Finland as being colder than normal.
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This means that the NOAA baseline must have warmer temperatures in the Gulf of Finland than in the Northern Baltic, a situation that simply does not occur in spring.
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The last ice in the Bay of Riga and the Gulf of Finland only melted about a week ago, and the Gulf of Bothnia is still ice-covered and is expected to remain so for most of May.
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Many ships pass through the Gulf of Finland during the summer months.
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Tourists enjoy sailing in the calm waters of the Gulf of Finland each year.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The place-name is fully compositional: 'gulf' (a stretch of sea) + 'of' + 'Finland' indicates the sea area associated with Finland, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can readily infer the meaning. The 'X of Y' locative/possessive construction is cross-linguistically common and non-idiomatic, reinforcing immediate comprehensibility.
Etymology
The name Gulf of Finland uses gulf to mean a large bay or arm of the sea and points to the area by Finland. So it simply means 'the part of the sea next to Finland', the water between Finland and Estonia.
